Elena Bellodi

Associate Professor
DE: Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara,

Blocco A, Polo Scientifico Tecnologico
Via Saragat 1, 44122, Ferrara, Italy

Tel: +39 0532 974882 Fax: +39 0532 974882
E-Mail: elena.bellodi@unife.it
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I. RESEARCH

Publications

Latest Publications

[8]	Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, Rafael Kiesel, and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Solving decision theory problems with probabilistic answer set programming. Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 2024. [ bib \| http \| http ]
[7]	Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Learning the parameters of probabilistic answer set programs. In Stephen H. Muggleton and Alireza Tamaddoni-Nezhad, editors, Inductive Logic Programming - ILP 2022, volume 14363 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 1--14, Cham, 2024. Springer Nature Switzerland. [ bib \| DOI \| http ]
[6]	Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Summary of statistical statements in probabilistic logic programming. volume 385, pages 384 -- 385, 2023. [ bib \| DOI \| http ]
[5]	Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Towards a representation of decision theory problems with probabilistic answer set programs. volume 385, pages 190 -- 191, 2023. [ bib \| DOI \| http ]
[4]	Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, and Fabrizio Riguzzi. MAP inference in probabilistic answer set programs. In Agostino Dovier, Angelo Montanari, and Andrea Orlandini, editors, AIxIA 2022 -- Advances in Artificial Intelligence, pages 413--426, Cham, 2023. Springer International Publishing. [ bib \| DOI \| http ]
[3]	Damiano Azzolini, Elena Bellodi, and Fabrizio Riguzzi. Approximate inference in probabilistic answer set programming for statistical probabilities. In Agostino Dovier, Angelo Montanari, and Andrea Orlandini, editors, AIxIA 2022 -- Advances in Artificial Intelligence, pages 33--46, Cham, 2023. Springer International Publishing. [ bib \| DOI \| http ]
[2]	Riccardo Zese and Elena Bellodi. A web application for reasoning on probabilistic description logics knowledge bases. Software: Practice and Experience, In Press:1--22, 2023. [ bib \| DOI \| http ]
[1]	Elena Bellodi, Davide Bertozzi, Alice Bizzarri, Michele Favalli, Michele Fraccaroli, and Riccardo Zese. Efficient resource-aware neural architecture search with a neuro-symbolic approach. pages 171--178, 2023. [ bib \| DOI ]

Projects

PRObabilistic DEclarative Process Mining (PRODE): 2023-25, financed by MUR PRIN 2022 call. Principal Investigator.
Support System for Sustainable Smart Cities (S4C): 2024-25, financed by Regione Emilia-Romagna (POR-FESR2021-27). Unit Leader (Unife – Mechlav).
POLIcy Support systEm for smart citY data governancE (POLIS-EYE), 2019-2022, financed by Regione Emilia-Romagna (POR-FESR2014-20). Participant. It intends to analyze, together with companies, requirements and data related to the tourism sector to create forecasting and decision-making models integrated into a decision support system, and apply them in the field
Green Smart Technology for Water (GST4Water), 2016-2018, financed by Regione Emilia-Romagna (POR-FESR2014-20). Participant. It aims at developing innovative solutions towards economical savings and hydro-sustainability by means of ICT technologies that should make citizens informed about water consumption
Decision Support System to improve appropriateness of repeated execution of laboratory examinations (2012-2015), financed by the Italian Ministry of Health under the “Ricerca Finalizzata 2010” call . See the following publications: ICHI2014 conference, ICTAI2015 conference, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making Journal (2017)

Organizational and Editorial Activities

Deputy director of the UNIFE editions of the “Advanced Schools in Artificial Intelligence in Emilia Romagna” (ASAI), financed by the Emilia-Romagna region (AY 2021-22 and 2022-23)
Associate Editor of Artificial Intelligence Review
Member of the Editorial Board of
- Intelligent Data Analysis
- Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Frontiers in Big Data: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence section
- Intelligenza Artificiale
Past Associate Editor of the Journal of Computer Science
Guest co-Editor of the Special Issue of Inductive Logic Programming, ILP 2023 @IJCLR2023 of the Journal Machine Learning
Guest co-Editor of the Special Issue on Probabilistic Logic Programming 2018 of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Guest co-Editor of the Special Issue of Inductive Logic Programming, ILP 2017 and 2018 of the Journal Machine Learning
co-Editor of the proceedings of:
- the 5th Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming (PLP2018): http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2219/
- the Up-and-Coming and Short Papers of ILP 2018: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2206/
- the Regular Papers of the Inductive Logic Programming conference 2018: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319999593
- the Doctoral Consortium of the XIV Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1485/
Program co-chair of the 32nd International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2023), November 2023, Bari, Italy
Co-organizer of ACAI 2018 – Summer School on Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence, August 27th – 31st 2018, Ferrara, Italy, part of RAID 2018
Program co-chair and co-organizer of the 28th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2018), September 2nd – 4th 2018, Ferrara, Italy, part of RAID 2018
Program co-chair and organizer of the 5th Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming (PLP 2018), September 1st 2018, Ferrara, Italy, part of RAID 2018
Co-organizer of AIxIA 2015
Program committees: LOD 2022, KR 2022, ICLP 2020 (special track on Women in Logic Programming), IJCAI-ECAI 22, IJCAI 2021 (senior PC member), IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, IJCAI-19, AAAI 2019/2020/2021, NIPS 2018, AmI 2018, AIXIA 2015, RCRA 2015, ILP 2015/2019/2020-21@IJCLR, NFMCP 2015/2016/2017/2018, PLP 2014/2015/2016/2017/2019/2020/2021/2022, CILC 2014/2015/2016

Awards

2021 “Marco Somalvico” Award sponsored by the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) for the contribution of young Italian researchers (under 37) to the AI field (https://aixia.it/premi/premio-intelligenza-artificiale-marco-somalvico-biennale/)
She was in the winning team of the Probabilistic Track in the international competition of the ILP 2016 conference (Inductive Logic Programming Conference, 4-6 September 2016, London) with the SLIPCOVER software: http://ilp16.doc.ic.ac.uk/ competition
The Ph.D. Thesis won the 2014 Award sponsored by the Italian Association “Gruppo Ricercatori e Utenti di Logic Programming” (GULP) for the best Ph.D. thesis in the field of Computational Logic discussed from December 2011 until May 2014
The Ph.D. Thesis won the 2013 “Marco Cadoli” Award sponsored by the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), for the best Ph.D. thesis in the field of AI discussed from January 2012 until May 2013 at an Italian university
Best Paper Award for the article BUNDLE: A Reasoner for Probabilistic Ontologies by Riccardo Zese, Fabrizio Riguzzi, Evelina Lamma and Elena Bellodi at the 7th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2013)
Highly Commended Paper Award for the article Probabilistic declarative process mining by Elena Bellodi, Fabrizio Riguzzi, and Evelina Lamma at the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering & Management (KSEM 2010)

Invited Talks

Invited speaker at the 20th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA2021) for the “Marco Somalvico” award
Invited panelist on “How should LP evolve to become ubiquitous and important in AI (e.g., becoming more user-friendly, integrating with other methodologies, …) and How can LP serve to solve societal problems?” at the 2021 MentorLP Workshop, ICLP 2021
Grad School Survival Guide at the 2021 MentorLP Workshop, ICLP 2021
Introduction to Probabilistic Logic Programming (Part I; Part II), at The Autumn School on Logic and Constraint Programming, ICLP 2020
Efficient inference in discrete and continuous domains for PLP languages under the Distribution Semantics, at PLP 2019
Invited speaker at the XIII Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIXIA2013, Turin, December 4-6) to present the Ph.D. thesis awarded with the 2013 “Marco Cadoli” Award
Invited speaker at the 31^st Italian Congress of Computational Logic (CILC 2016, Milan, June 20-22) to present the Ph.D. thesis awarded with the prize for the best PhD thesis in Computational Logic

Tutorials

(Invited) Probabilistic Logic Programming languages and their applications at the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics of the University of Udine, Italy (2018)
Learning from knowledge graphs at EKAW2018 (with F. Riguzzi, R. Zese, G. Cota)
Probabilistic Knowledge Representation in Machine Learning at AI*IA 2018 (with R. Zese)

II. SERVICE

Ragazze Digitali ER 2022 and 2023 representative for Unife
Member of the Interest Group for Data Science in Food Safety Risk Assessment of the EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) for UNIFE. The technical group brings competences on machine learning, natural language processing and data mining – from September 2021.
Member of the Council (“Giunta”) of the Department of Engineering as person in charge for its web site management – from December 2018.

III. TEACHING

Machine Learning and Data Mining since A.Y. 2023/24, Dept. of Engineering and of Mathematics and computer science (MSc).
Co-teaching in Fondamenti di Intelligenza Artificiale e Cloud Computing per le Biotecnologie since A.Y. 2022/23, Dept. of Translational Medicine and for Romagna (BSc).
Co-teaching in Fondamenti di Intelligenza Artificiale since A.Y. 2022/23, Dept. of Engineering (MSc).
Co-teaching in Fondamenti di Informatica – modulo B in A.Y. 2022/23, Dept. of Engineering (BSc).
Module 3 of Applicazioni dell’Intelligenza Artificiale in Medicina since A.Y. 2019/20, Dept. of Translational Medicine and for Romagna.
Basi di Dati (Database Systems) since A.Y. 2018/19, Dept. of Engineering (BSc).
AIMA.search library (Laboratorio di Fondamenti di Intelligenza Artificiale), 2014-2020.